Fastening device.



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM J. PAYNE, OF CANDOR, ANEV YORK.

FASTIENING DEVICE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 712,003, dated October 28, 1902. Application iiled November 30, 1901. SerialNo. 84,196. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom, zit may concern,.-

Be it known that I, WILLIAM J. PAYNE, a citizen of the United States, residing in Candor, in the county of Tioga and State o New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Fastening Devices, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to fastening devices, and has for its object to provide a fastening to connect or draw together and securely hold in such position the meeting edges of shoes, gloves, corsets, and other objects capable of being laced together.

Another object of the invention is to provide improved means for lacing such objects.

Another object of the invention is to provide improved eyes for lacing.

In carrying out my invention Iemploy eyes formed of some pliable material,which, if desired, may be the same material as that of which the lacing is made. The vloops forming the eyes through which the lace will pass offer less resistance to the lace than do eyelet-holes similarly situated. The bases of the loops forming the eyes are wide, by which means when a lace is drawn through a loop or eye the lace and loop or eye will come against each other in a spiral relation, thereby permitting an easy sliding of the lace through the eye upon drawing up the lace and bringing the meeting edges toward each' other. In an ordinary organization having laces passing through eyelet holes as the edges come together the lace draws more tightly, whereas in the present application it is easier to get the sides of the object being laced to come toward each other on account of the minimum of friction. At the last part of the drawing there is less friction than when the edges are farthest apart.

In the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, Figure l is a perspective view of a form of my invention. Fig. 2 is a modification.

My invention is shown as having sides A A, which may be stays, and each side is represented as having a flexible strip B wrapped around it in a spiral'direction, forming at the edges of the stays opposite each other loops or eyes C, through which'the lace D is passed to draw the two sides together. The eyeloops may be made of any suitable iiexible or textile material and, if desired, may be is made. A row of stitching E may pass through the covering ofthe stays and hold the eye-loops firmly in position. If it is desired to have two or more sets of lacing side by side, eye-loops may be applied to project beyond both edges of the strip or stay, and if flexible material is employed it may be wrapped around the stayin a spiral, as shown in Fig. 2, making eye-loops C C', projecting in opposite directions, the eye-loops being secured in their places by stitching.

The engagement ofthe eye-loops and lacing is a spiral one, which allows a free sliding.

The lacing will be longer-lived in this structure than in those embodying eyelets and the like, because the movement of the body causing the meeting edges of a garment or article to move in opposite lengthwise directions will not in this structure move the lacing in the eyes. There will instead be a mutual yield.

B y passing or wrapping the textile or flexible strips B B around or about'the stays A A in the'manner herein shown and described the saidA stays are made to bear practically all direct strains incident to tight lacing or drawing together of the two parts of a corset or other article, it being understood that the stitching which passes through such strips is only subjected to the lesser or indirect strains and is mainly employed for maintaining the eye-loops in proper positions to receive the lacing-cord. It will also be seen that by passing the said flexible strip first to one side and then the other of the stay A a plurality of broad bearings for said strip is obtained transversely of the stay capable of sustaining great stress broughtthereon in the direction of either side of the stay-such, for instance, as may be caused by the bursting tendency of a corsetor shoe when tightly laced.

Having described my invention, I claim- 1. A stay and a continuous strip of iiexible material passed about the same Iirst to one side and then the other transversely and in excess of the width of the stay to form eyeloops for receiving a lacing, said strip being secured to the stay.

2. A stay and a continuous strip of liexible material passed about the same rst to one side and then the other transversely and in made of the same material of which the lace' excess of the Width of the stay to form eyeloops for receiving a lacing said strip being secured to the stay at the edge of the latter adjacent the loops.

3. A stay and a continuous strip of flexible material passed about the same first to one side and then the other transversely and in excess of the width of the stay and forming eye-loops for receiving a lacing, each member of each loop being secured to the stay.

4. A stay and a continuous strip of flexible material passed about the same first to one side and then the other transversely and in excess of the Width of the stay and forming eye-loops for receiving a lacing, said strip being secured to the stay at the edge of the latter adjacent the loops by means of stitching 6. A stay and a continuous strip of flexible material passed about the same first to one side and then the other transversely and in excess of the Width of the stay at both edges thereof, and forming eye-loops at each edge of the stay for receiving a lacing.

'7. A stay and a continuous strip of flexible material passed about the same first to one side and then the other transversely and in excess of the Width of the stay at both edges thereof, and forming eye-loops at each edge of the Stay for receiving a lacing, said strip being secured to the stay at each edge thereof by stitching passing through both the members of the loops and the stay.

8. A fastener comprising oppositely-located stays, each having a flexible strip of textile material twined about the same in a spiral direction, and secured near one edge of the stay by stitching, said strips being for-med into eyeloops at the inner edges of the stays, and a lacing-strip passing in and out of the loops.

A XVILLTAM J. PAYNE. Witnesses:

F. M. ELLIOTT, GEORGE E. GRAHAM. 

